Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.

In the near-constant barrage of e-mail we get in the AICN mailboxes from AB King about all things even tangentially Stallone or Schwarzenegger related, an occasional interesting item pops up.

In this case, it’s this link to a New Zealand article about the start of location photography for James Cameron’s AVATAR:

Guys! Look at this!

Not a lot of new information there, but it’s a nice goad, a reminder that somewhere in the world right now, James Cameron’s hard at work to annihilate the envelope for our viewing pleasure. My spies on the film (and there are a few) seem a little dazed by the ambition of what they’re trying to pull off, and that’s exciting to hear. We’re still two years away from seeing the movie, but just knowing that, piece by piece, Cameron’s building this thing he’s been carrying around for so long, finally committing it to film... well, that’s pretty much the textbook definition of cool news, isn’t it?

Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles